August was up just after 6:10. He said “Mama?” from the top of the stairs. Came down and they nursed. He did some math in Excel and then was typing words on my iPad. We had finished ‘kaleidoscope’ when Carly was leaving and he asked to type ‘I love you’. She left, and his next request was ‘glass window’. After that he had fun making emojis and having me to read the nonsense story that resulted. He read a couple words on his own, kind of like yesterday when he was pretending to read the books in the library and picked out a few words. We then finished 52-Story Treehouse. He was then an ant and wanted an ant nest. We made a big nest and then read to chapter 10 of James and the Giant Peach. We then destroyed the nest and he watched A Day for Eeyore and I made a mango lassi.
After lassi we did some Hebrew and exercised. He said he’d do a weight if I did. He used one weight and said it was because he lost his other hands. We then read 6 chapters of The 39-Story Treehouse. We went upstairs and took his Hebrew workbook. On one page we translated the boxes with writing prompts. One was ‘I like’ and he said “ice cream”. So I showed him how to write it in Hebrew and he wrote it in the box. I took a shower and he played Dragonbox Little Numbers. On his bed we then watched the Hebrew numbers song, and then found one about Hebrew colors. Then we watched a playlist of Hebrew children’s songs. He leaned his head against my back as he watched them.
Downstairs I put Dragonbox Egg Crack on his iPad and he did a few levels on his own. He was then being Garfield:”I ate 10 quarts of mayonnaise and 7 quarts of chicken.” We read some Garfield. He talked about getting more Garfield books but looked on iBooks and they are expensive there. But then I figured out how to search the school library and I found five books we can check out.
He had corn and rice and then sweet potato fries for lunch. He started repeating “You know what I like about you? You’re so docile.” Which is a Garfield comic. We then added in the rest of the strip where Garfield attacks Jon and then says “I don’t like being pegged.” We acted it out several times.
We went outside and spent quite awhile watering the plants and picking up the tree things, as a good amount had fallen because of the wind. While watering the papayas and tomatoes, he takes time to make a “stream” from one plant to the next. When he got to the sunny part he asked me to do the next plant. He took back over and realized I hadn’t done a stream and chastised me for not continuing the stream.
Back inside we read a couple more chapters of The 39-Story Treehouse, then he did some Legos on his own.
We left by 2:10. I had talked about how we could make chocolate chip cookies tomorrow to take to his activity class. He was not happy about the idea of giving all our cookies away, and only slightly calmed by assurances that he would have cookies too. So he was grumpy on the way over. I’d mentioned the park, but when we got past the mall he was surprised we weren’t going to the mall. He cheered up when I reminded him about the park, and really cheered up when we started playing.
He went to the merry-go-round and had me get on. He explained it was just for adults but he could get on because he was the driver. First he asked me where I wanted to go and I said Iceland, but he said busses don’t go to other countries. I said to the beach then. It then turned into a time machine, which also turned into a lesson about the numbering of years: “You’re really close to ancient Egypt. You’re in the 1960s…Yeah, you’re a couple thousand years off but you’re pretty close!…You’re to when dragons were here!” We talked about how it is now 2017 and he was born in 2014: “Huh? How’s it get to the 2000s? I thought it was still the thousands!”
He then found some sap on a tree, and played with that for several minutes. He would get his fingers sticky, then we would head over to the drinking fountain to wash it off. He kept talking about the sap “slowly unstickafying” and being “unstickafied”. Carly thinks she might have come up with that one. He also wanted to keep checking our step count. We went and looked at the free library briefly, then got going.
We went to the mall and went shopping. He stayed on the bike and I used our reusable bags as our cart. He forgot he had to keep sitting though and started jumping in his seat once and tipped over backwards. Had to pause and take him out the bathroom once. We finished and headed home.
We came home and played GarageBand until Carly got home. They nursed and I got food out. August wasn’t eating much and was being a bag of French fries wanting to go to the grocery store, sitting on a pillow and wanting one of us to carry him. Through serious negotiation he agreed to have two bites, then I’d carry him. But he only ate one bite and refused a second. Ended up getting really upset and Carly took him upstairs. Got him calmed down until she said it was shower time. We decided to try to do showers during the day and skipped a shower.
He calmed down and started playing around: “What should I have for breakfast? 1 quart of mayonnaise and two quarts of iPads. What should I have for dinner? One quart of carpets.” That’s from Garfield, who puts a quart of mayonnaise on his salad.
Carly had cooked cauliflower, and we went down and he ate a good amount of that. We went back upstairs and read 3 chapters of Mummies in the Morning, the third Magic Treehouse book, then more of The 39-Story Treehouse. I left them about 7:10 and he was asleep soon after that.
Exercising and talking about his hands breaking off:
Practicing his Hebrew numbers:
Chastising me for not doing the stream:
Unstickified sap at Drorim Garden:
Skittles song:
More sequencer drums and dancing:
Reading in the fort
Measuring
Writing ‘ice cream’
Merry-go-round
Picking sap
Swinging
Reading cursive
A photo he took off me
Photo we took off Carly
Writing ‘ice cream’ in Hebrew:
Park:
Reading cursive letters:
